Browsing Geography and Environmental Management by Author "Johnson, Peter A."
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Assessing the Use of Government Open Data and the Role of Data Infomediaries The Case of Nova Scotia’s Community Counts Program
Chan, Mavis; Johnson, Peter A.; Shookner, Malcolm (Center for E-Government, 2016)This study examines the Nova Scotia Community Counts program, a common platform that aggregates data from many sources mirroring what is generally considered as government open data. The role of Community Counts as a data ... -
Characterizing New Channels of Communication: A Case Study of Municipal 311 Requests in Edmonton, Canada
Liu, Qing; Johnson, Peter A. (Cogitatio Press, 2016)City governments around the world are developing and expanding how they connect to citizens. Technologies play an important role in making this connection, and one frequent way that cities connect with citizens is through ... -
Civic Hackathons: New Terrain for Local Government-Citizen Interaction?
Robinson, Pamela J.; Johnson, Peter A. (Cogitatio Press, 2016)As more and more governments share open data, tech developers respond by creating apps using these data to generate content or provide services that citizens may find useful. More recently, there is an increase in popularity ... -
A Coupled Snow Operations-Skier Demand Model for the Ontario (Canada) Ski Region
Pons, Marc; Scott, Daniel; Steiger, Robert; Rutty, Michelle; Johnson, Peter; Vilella, Marc (EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2016-04-01)The multi-billion dollar global ski industry is one of the tourism subsectors most directly impacted by climate variability and change. In the decades ahead, the scholarly literature consistently projects decreased reliability ... -
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
Harrison, Sara E.; Johnson, Peter A. (IGI Global, 2016-10-01)Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government ... -
Disintermediating Government: The role of Open Data and Smart Infrastructure
Johnson, Peter A. (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019)Governments are increasingly negotiating the adoption of civic technologies to improve government functioning and to better connect with citizens. Despite the benefits of civic technology to make government more efficient, ... -
Exploring the Ecological Footprint of Tourism in Ontario
Johnson, Peter A. (University of Waterloo, 2003)Once considered a 'green' industry, tourism and its associated ecological impacts are now widely acknowledged. Focus within tourism planning has aimed to reduce the ecological burden placed on a destination area, and ... -
The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps
Johnson, Peter A; Sieber, Renee E (Community Informatics Journal, 2017-03-22)Recent advances in web-based geospatial tools (the Geoweb) show promise as low-cost and easy-to-use methods to support citizen participation. This research presents two case studies of Geoweb implementation set in ... -
Identifying Potential Conflict in Land-Use Planning Using a Values-Centered E-Participation Tool: A Canadian Case Study in Aggregate Mining
Philpot, Simone; Hipel, Keith; Johnson, Peter (2019-01-08)An innovative e-participation tool is used to facilitate the articulation of value-laden assumptions, and to identify key points of likely conflict in an aggregate mining controversy in Ontario, Canada. The expert model ... -
Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository
Johnson, Peter; Ricker, Britta; Harrison, Sara (2017-01-04)Orthorectified imagery is valuable for a wide range of initiatives including environmental change detection, planning, and disaster response. Obtaining aerial imagery at high temporal and spatial scale has traditionally ... -
A Web of Expectations: Evolving Relationships in Community Participatory Geoweb Projects.
Johnson, Peter A.; Corbett, J.M.; Gore, C.; Robinson, P.; Allen, P.; Sieber, Renee E (2015)New forms of participatory online geospatial technology have the potential to support citizen engagement in governance and community development. The mechanisms of this contribution have predominantly been cast in the ... -
Who Are Government OpenData Infomediaries? A Preliminary Scan and Classification of Open Data Users and Products
Johnson, Peter A.; Greene, Sarah (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), 2017-12-01)Open data, that is, the provision of government data in a publicly accessible, machine-readable format, with liberal usage terms, has become commonplace. Despite the promise of open data, there are many questions about who ...